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The woman who cracked the anxiety code : the extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes / Judith Hoare.
Van Pelt Library R674.W43 H62 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoare, Judith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women physicians.
- Australia.
- Weekes, Claire.
- Women physicians--Australia--Biography.
- Physicians--Australia--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Anxiety--Treatment.
- Anxiety.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 400 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : Scribe, 2019.
- Summary:
- The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era- anxiety.Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia...The international bestseller Self-Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and still in print, has helped tens of millions of people to overcome all of these, and continues to do so. Yet even as letters and phone calls from readers around the world flooded in, thanking her for helping to improve - and in some cases to save - their lives, Dr Claire Weekes was dismissed as underqualified and overly populist by the psychiatric establishment. Just who was this woman?Claire Weekes was driven by a restless and unconventional mind that saw her become the first woman to earn a Doctor of Science degree at Australia's oldest university, win global plaudits for her research into evolution, and take a turn as a travel agent, before embarking on a career in medicine. But it was a mistaken diagnosis of tuberculosis that would set her heart racing and push her towards integrating all she'd learned into a practical treatment for anxiety - a tried-and-true method now seen as state-of-the-art 30 years after her death. This book is the first to tell her remarkable story.
- Contents:
- 1 Misdiagnosis p. 17
- 2 Her Mother's Daughter p. 23
- 3 The Evolution of Claire p. 43
- 4 Meeting Marcel p. 49
- 5 Lizard Babies and the Lizard Brain p. 59
- 6 The Shadow of Death p. 67
- 7 Sinking and Floating p. 77
- 8 Darwin and the Heart of the Matter p. 85
- 9 Now, Here Was a Teacher p. 99
- 10 A Template for a Book p. 107
- 11 Life in a Cold Climate p. 117
- 12 The Song of Beth p. 127
- 13 Dr Weekes' European Travel Advice Bureau p. 139
- 14 The World at War p. 151
- 15 Dr Weekes, Redux p. 155
- 16 The House of Women p. 169
- 17 The Birth of a Book p. 183
- 18 Self Help for Your Nerves p. 195
- 19 Unscientific Science p. 207
- 20 Getting a Grip on the Market p. 215
- 21 A Second Home p. 229
- 22 Bad Business p. 237
- 23 Peace from Agoraphobia p. 245
- 24 A Pioneer of Fear p. 255
- 25 Living in Two Worlds p. 263
- 26 The Soulmate p. 271
- 27 Vindication p. 283
- 28 Old Age p. 291
- 29 The BBC and a Blizzard of Letters p. 305
- 30 The Sound of Closing Doors p. 313
- 31 A Blow to the Brain p. 321
- 32 Eyes on the Prize p. 327
- 33 The Nobel Nomination p. 335
- 34 Final Days p. 345.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781925713381
- 1925713385
- 9781912854165
- 1912854163
- 9781950354108
- 1950354105
- OCLC:
- 1105150547
- Publisher Number:
- 99982299427
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